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Underwater diving Diving for new found wrecks in Georgian Bay is quite an experience by Priscilla Galloway foot intervals along each Up we go, it's been no fall storms that take he'd rolled on the CO2 the water's clear, no huge, imponderable, like- markedonour chart-and - at Hope Island lighthouse - seemed more or less Sit down with me here _ side of this ship. At least, time at all. them, a lot of the time. cylinder of his safety vest Souvenirs | no other barn joists hand-hewn in nobody could miss 400 and talked to the keeper. placid, these past few in the sand, forty feet I think they're iron, each Off again, changing Brian whets our appetite, and blownhimself up. He divers, and the water at an old'barn. feet of freighter surely, Ashipcansink morethan hours. It's warm and under the waves. We're witha little wheel on the _ tanks, to the wreck of the he dreams of wrecks not doesn't deflate easily. 20 feet is warm, com- And to think foranhour the landward end was once, it seems. The big drowsy as we head for off Hope Island and end, they look more like Lonny Wolf, lying in 20 yet discovered, plans to © TheLonny Wolfishuge. paratively speaking. this morning we were only 10" under the sur- stormlastNovember took home, relaxed about as gazing up at the high leather, twisted and bent. feet of water just around find them too. It takes me a while to Huge timbers, spaced'so wreckless! Westartedout face. the Maple Don down muchas folk can be. It's wooden prow of a long- Later, Eugene said he the point. Quite a few My buddy had quite a_ realize that she wasn't so we can see the thickness, after the Maple Don,a 400 _ No Maple Don - and six again, and deeper. It'll be hard now to fimape wild. ago schooner, lost so thought they were part of ships have gone down in time getting out of the fantastically enormous a_fourorfiveinchesthick at foot steel freighter that of us straining our eyes. a new dive again when November Ws and completely that even her the rigging, taking ropes _ these waters, last couple water-rolled in and went ship, but the bones are least the skin of this ship, went downin the 1920's off We were still feeling she's found. darkness and 'waiting name has been lost. In the for the sails. of hundred years. It's the whsst - like a balloon - spread out. A good dive, and the other timbers Beckwith Island. It was foolish when we stopped Georgian Bay has only rocks. murky quiet, we can almost see her three masts raise themselves again her sails fill with wind What storm brought her here, I wonder? Were the men lost who sailed her or did they get ashore? Or was it a storm that took her? Explosion maybe? Later, my buddy and I will circumnavigate this wooden skeleton and see if we can guess any an- swers to these questions. | Canada No. 1 Grade, Ontario Fresh Daily -- New POTATOES '139 20-lb Carrots 2:49: FRESHNESS Makes The Difference at A&P ANP) ALL PRICES SHOWN IN THIS AD GUARANTEED EFFECTIVE THROUGH SATURDAY, AUGUST 14TH, 1976 Check the air. I started out with 2200 pounds and have still 1800 left. My buddy no doubt wonders what I'm waiting for, sitting here; he's going on around the side. There aren't any ghosts here, and Georgian Bay is icy, forty feet down. Good thing I've got my full wet suit on, except the gloves; my cold hands are bare. Gently, we flipper down the side of this wreck. It's very murky, the mud well-stirred by other rubber-coated figures. One swims toward me, gestures - and it's a school of perch, acres of perch, it seems, almost drifting by. Is there anything like thought in their fish brains as they look at me? The man who pointed them out to me is a bald- headed fellow in black - I bet he wishes he'd worn his helmet. He's holding the remains of a paddle - or an oar, perhaps, his eyes are turned again to the old ship, souvenir- sharp, as he goes on. A pity. Everything should be left as is for others to see. A man like this would be after the anchor too, I bet, if he thought he could get it away. I have a sudden vision of him with the anchor on his back, and _ snort with laughter, burbling into my regulator, Each rust-crusted link of the anchor chain is as big as my hand, and the anchor itself is sticking up, its grappling arms twice as long as mine, its shaft | longer than my body. It's 4 = tae aaa Action Priced PLUS SPRUE race anchor would weigh down 7 ceeisee | IT'S SLIPPING BY! ; acquaintance for good. hd FACIAL TISSUE a WHITE, PINK, YELLOW This old wreck is a new | wreck, new-found, that is, and the hunters have been by rushing, legal or not. We Nancy McMahon, Homemaker - 40-FL-OZ f BOTTLE fees E ase RT) SUNKIST ORANGES «99 CELERY STALKS ~39: GREEN BEANS 39: PSs are one of three diving Bante siete sine vldw: Ida Burns Consumer Consultant Team doing our little bit to muddy the water. Our Sadl k . . Behe hast attired ip adly, we know our summer season is coming mud near the stern, the to an end! We love our ever-changing seasons-- rope rising aslant the hull 4 . . ei dive Hae Atha 4 but don't you wish summer would last just a foot Grew cruiser with little longer? securely 'simewbore up BOXES abaliye Us) cut of sight¥a Capture summer's golden glow, for those blus- OF 100 few minutes ago I swam tery winter days ahead, by freezing or canning SHEETS back down the spine of . . : He strech end "Inia the Au) fresh Ontario fruits and vegetables seeing it - that's how you'll find in abundance in our A&P Produce pee tes pate athe Departments. 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We havea J- valve on our tanks - this gives you a reserve to get Fresh 2% Milk back to the boat - but I'm sure it must be un- ; pleasant . take a breath - and find there isn't any - 3-QT BAG Plus and a horrid moment OR JUG Pas while you reach behind and fumble to pull down the little rod to activate Grispycrust Lard Dove Liquid Ae 32-FL-OZ PKG ¢ BOTTLE a run out but it used to happen to my buddy all : the time. ~ I want to see the stern - ' , it looks as if it has been ' blown outward - but my s * buddy gestures up. We , take a last good look at u e V n ue hr i a n the iron stanchions that } : } : stick out at, perhaps, ten- Page 10, Wednesday, August 11, 1976 t AMBASSADOR--COOKED BREAD & BUTTER ( nee he GOOD VALUE! SCHNEIDERS--PURE ACTION PRICED! " CHOCOLATE CHIP OR BEST ASSORTED Colonial Cookies es | 69 ACTION PRICED! DETERGENT BAG